This firm was listed in a directory (1901) as a manufacturer of carving, cooks’, spur, guard and vegetable forks, cheese scoops, fish eaters, oyster, dessert, and pickle forks, and table steels.  The stated establishment date was 1800; the address Bard Street.  The business can be traced to Charles Wells (c.1809-1872), who was a carver-fork manufacturer in 1841 in High Street, with a dwelling in New Street, Park.  Presumably, he was related to the Wells’ family, which manufactured forks in the Park district.  Charles may have been the son of John Wells, which may account for the 1800 start date.  In 1833, Charles, a fork maker, had married Miss Mary Lee.  He continued in High Street as a carver-fork maker, until his death at his residence in Broad Street, Park, on 14 December 1872, aged 63.  The burial register for Burngreave Cemetery noted that he was a dissenter.  ‘Charles Wells’ continued to be listed in Broad Street until about 1912.  The last traceable family owner was Charles’s son, John Wells (c.1843-1923), who lived in Talbot Street.  He died on 25 December 1923, aged 80, leaving £1,107.  The firm was listed at Bard Street (off Broad Street), Park, until the Second World War.